Career Highlights:
Dr. Lee worked for General Electric Global Research and Texas Instruments Inc. as an applied mathematician in modeling and simulation for several years. She joined US Army Research Development and Engineering Center at Benet Labs as a physicist and technical manager of the X-ray characterization lab in 1989. She has had 20 years of experience in applied physics, advanced materials, elastic-plastic deformation mechanics, physical metallurgy, physical vapor deposition technologies, X-ray diffraction, and thin films research and development. She has been a principal investigator funded under a variety of R&D funding sources, including US Office of Secretary Defense. Her most recent R&D is in the area of development innovative environmental-friendly materials and physical vapor deposition processes for potential toxic electroplated Cr process replacement. Dr. Lee joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a voluntary adjunct faculty in physics in 1996; directing and working with graduate students from RPI and SUNY Albany, and collaborating with RPI professors in the Physics and Material Science Departments. She applies X-ray technologies to semiconductor and nanotechnology research. She has served on graduate student Ph.D. committees; she is active in ICMCTF, SVC, SEM etc technical societies. She has also been invited to review publications for several technical journals, including Thin Solid Films, Metallurgical Coatings, Euro Physics Letters etc.